Copy-holder



B NEDER Copy-Holder.

(ModeL) No; 227,043. Patented April 27,1880.

MPETERS. FNOTO-LITHOGRAPNER. WASHINGTON, By C,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD NEDER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COPY-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 227,043, dated April27, 1880.

Application filed March 29, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD NEDER, of Chicago,in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a newanduseful Im provement in Copy-Holders, of which the following is aspecification.

The nature of my invention relates to copyholders designed for the useof printers in setting type, as well as for copyists in copying anyinstrument of Writing, or any other purpose for which it may beapplicable; and my invention consists in the construction, arrangement,and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter more fullyset forth, and pointed out by the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view ofmy copyholder complete, and Fig. 2 represents a vertical cross-sectionof the same.

Like letters in the several figures of the drawings designate likeparts.

A denotes the wooden base, which may be part of the printers type-case,or which may be composed of a rectangular board, to the edge of which isjoined, at an acute angle, another smaller board. This base is intendedto be placed upon the. printers type-receptacle. To the upper face ofthis base A is secured, by wood-screws, a wedge-shaped iron plate, a,which is tapped to receive the thumbscrew B.

C is a flat metal standard, the lower end, I), of which is bent to anobtuse angle therewith, and is slotted for passing it over the shank ofthe thumb-screw B, and for adjustably and removably securing it upon theplate a by the said thumb-screw.

The standard C has two horizontal or cross bars, D and E, the lowerbar,D, of which has hooks d near its. ends, which project down andforward. The upper extremity of standard C is bent to a right angle andhas an eye, 0.

A tablet, F, of wood or pasteboard or metal,

is placed against the standard and bars D and E and upon the hooks d,and extends upward under the eyed end of said standard.

Against this tablet F, and upon the hooks cl,

is placed the sheet to be copied.

A horizontal straight-edge-like bar, G, having a handle, g, is securedto the lower end of a perpendicular rod, H, which is passed through theeye 0 at the upper end of standard C, so as to slide vertically therein.

(ModeL) Abow-shaped leaf-spring, I, is secured with its lower end to therear of the standard C, while its upper bifurcated end embraces the rodH and exerts a lateral pressure upon the same in a manner to press thebar G against the tablet F and to hold it at any desirable elevation.This bar G is to be moved downward over the sheet to be copied by thetypesetter or copyist proportionally as he completes copying line afterline, that he may readily find the next word or sentence in truesuccession.

My improved copy-holder, as will be readily understood from the abovedescription, is very simple in its construction and of great convenienceto copyists, it being adjustable for bringing the sheet to be copied inthe best light or desired position by simply loosening the thumb-screwand turning the standard. Although I have arranged the base A to fit aprinters type-box, I do not wish to be held to that particularconstruction; but I intend to make said base of any desirable shape forsuiting different supports to which it may be applied.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A copy-holder having base A, with plate a and thumb-screw B, incombination with standard C, for supporting tablet F, and having slottedfoot '1), substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a copy-holder, the base A, having plate a and thumb-screw B, incombination with the standard C, having slotted foot I), cross-bars Dand E, and hooks d, for supporting tablet F, all substantially as andfor the purpose set forth.

3. In a copy-holder, the bar G, with rod H, in combination with thetablet F, supported by standard C, having hooks d and eye 0, andleaf-spring I, substantially as and for the purpose described and shown.

4,. A copy-holder composed of base A, having plate a and thumb-screw B,of standard C, having foot b, eye 0, bars D and E, hooks d, and springI, and the tablet F, in combination with bar G, having rod H, the wholeof which being constructed and arranged substantially as described andshown.

EDWARD NEDER.

Witnesses:

EMIL H. ScHINz, MORITZ NEDER.

